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Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day - May!

Welcome to May Dreams Gardens for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day this fine May day. I have flowers blooming, flowers budding, and flowers fadng! Here are some pictures of a few of them. On the side there is Baptisia 'Purple Smoke'.

This next flower is a mystery to me. I should know the name of it but I don't. Can anyone help? I assume it is the Allium family.

This is a creeping veronica, Veronica repens 'Sunshine'.

And the star of every Indiana garden, the state flower, the Peony. These should be fully in bloom by next weekend. This is a passalong plant from my Dad.

I have a pea blossom! I just might have outwitted the bunny rabbits by sprinkling the pea vines with cayenne pepper and letting the neighbor's cat play in the garden.

Here's Blue Dogbane, Amsonia tabernaemontana. It's pretty when it flowers, but the flowers only last a few weeks and then you just have green leaves. It is a bit of a self-sower, but not so much that you can't control it.

My best performing clematis is this White Solitary Clematis, Clematis integrefolia ‘Alba’. It's a shrub type and does require some support, or it would sprawl all over the ground.

I tried to keep the gnome out of this picture of the Japanese Iris, but couldn't. You just don't say "no" when the gnome wants to be in the picture. There might be consequences, mysterious happenings in the garden, if you know what I mean.

I tried but didn't get everything planted last week while I was on vacation. Now that I am back to work, these purchased plants will have to wait awhile longer before I can plant them in their summer homes.

And look, the robin's eggs have hatched in the crabapple tree in front!

That's enough pictures. Now the lists.

First, the fading flowers. “Wish you’d stopped by last week because they were really something to see then, but now there are just a few flowers hanging on, relunctant to say good bye so soon.”

Please join us for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day by posting on your blog what’s blooming today in your garden, and then leave a comment here so we can find you and visit to see all your pretty flowers.

If you don’t have a blog, feel free to list your blooms in a comment below.

If you have too many blooms to list or not enough time, just go with your top 10 list and join us anyway. And botanical names are strictly optional! All are welcome!

And I'll end with one more picture. This is Tradescantia 'Blue and Gold'. It's a morning bloomer and I took most of my pictures the evening of the 14th, so I borrowed this from a post last spring. I promise it is blooming like that now!

Comments

Beautiful! So that's the stuff 'dreams(May) are made of'.All the blooms are lovely. I specially like the Veronica, wish I can grow it here in my climate.I too have few blooms up my sleeve, already posted at Indiagarden.

Hi Carol, Very beautiful photos. My favorite is the Tradescantia "Blue and Gold". I'm going to try to find a few at my local garden center. It is a knock-out! The peony has me eagerly anticipating mine. But the new lives in the nest are the best blooms of all! Please stop by my blog - it is ready for May Bloom Day. Alyssa

Your place must just be buzzing with bees and others. What a collection! That pea flower has me most envious, though! You've gone from snowy bloom days to better day & night temps than we've been having. I hope there's a pea blossom in my garden soon.

My bloom day post is up now too. Thanks for this fun event every month! And congratulations on the well deserved Mousie!

Lovely blooms Carol. I just finished my post and I am looking forward to viewing everyone elses blooms.And what is this I just read from sister with a homestead about a frost, please tell me it isn't so.

Wow! No wonder you dream of May. What a tremendous variety. I love the peony. And the spiderwort looks compact and attractive unlike my unruly wild ones.

My list for Zanthan Gardens is up. It keeps changing as I see something I've forgotten every time I go back outside. My violas were fine this morning but are prostrate this afternoon. I'll pull them up tomorrow after GBBD is over.

Awesome floral frenzy happening, Carol. You're so far ahead of our garden...my clematis are up a couple of inches, the bluestar (Amsonia) is barely out of the garden...etc.

Your mystery plant, as others have noted, is Nectaroscordum siculum, also sometimes called Allium nectaroscordum....love the way taxonomists figure things out and change names. It's a lovely plant, very unique, though not fragrant...except somewhat oniony, of course.

Thanks all for the comments and for participating in Bloom Day. I think I've been to everyone's bloom day posts, posted so far, and left a comment. If I missed yours, it is purely an oversight, please let me know and I'll be around directly.

There is still time to participate if you haven't posted yet. It's May and there are lots of flowers everywhere, and we'd like to see YOURS!

Hi Carol, this is my first Bloom Day post. Thank you for hosting it. It can be found on the May 15 entry on my blog at http://web.mac.com/stone0579/iWeb/piaandco/Blog/Blog.htmlor www.stoneafterstone.com then click on "blog"

Hi Carol - I'd love to jump on the bandwagon from Blithewold in Bristol, RI where every day is blooms day! I just happened to take a couple of bloom snaps yesterday... plus one of the frog... Your mystery bulb is indeed Allium bulgaricum - I think someone already i.d.ed it - but it's one of my favorite-faves!

I'm so jealous of your dogsbane! I've never been able to get it going, even though I'm convinced that if it can grow in Australia, it can grow here in South Africa. My winter blooms are up here: http://kahnage.wordpress.com/ - come over and have a look at what's potting in the southern hemisphere...